Revelations of Siberia, Том 2Colburn and Company, 1853 |
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... tribes - The Prince of Obdorsk - Catherine II . -The Prince's threat to burn Tobolsk Assault on him Curious trial Integrity of the native - races • CHAPTER VII . . 117 Christmas - Masquerades - Visit from a party of masks -Custom of ...
... tribes - The Prince of Obdorsk - Catherine II . -The Prince's threat to burn Tobolsk Assault on him Curious trial Integrity of the native - races • CHAPTER VII . . 117 Christmas - Masquerades - Visit from a party of masks -Custom of ...
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... idea of the impression produced by his strange and gro- tesque figure . These tribes tear out the hair of their beard , until it loses the power to grow , which makes them look like women , although far from softening the OF SIBERIA . 9.
... idea of the impression produced by his strange and gro- tesque figure . These tribes tear out the hair of their beard , until it loses the power to grow , which makes them look like women , although far from softening the OF SIBERIA . 9.
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... in common with some wild tribes of North America , which seems to prove that the people of the two disrupted continents were at some early period in commu- nication with each other ; for it is otherwise incomprehensible 16 REVELATIONS.
... in common with some wild tribes of North America , which seems to prove that the people of the two disrupted continents were at some early period in commu- nication with each other ; for it is otherwise incomprehensible 16 REVELATIONS.
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... tribes inhabiting Siberia , to adopt for themselves such names as they like , and by which alone they become known among the people of their tribe . Such adopted names commonly express some particular quality , or profession of the ...
... tribes inhabiting Siberia , to adopt for themselves such names as they like , and by which alone they become known among the people of their tribe . Such adopted names commonly express some particular quality , or profession of the ...
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... tribes in the British possessions in the Eastern Archipelago , who , converted from Bud- dhism to Christianity , adopt their new faith in so far only as it secures them the enjoyment of certain privi- leges ; but otherwise they call ...
... tribes in the British possessions in the Eastern Archipelago , who , converted from Bud- dhism to Christianity , adopt their new faith in so far only as it secures them the enjoyment of certain privi- leges ; but otherwise they call ...
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afterwards amidst animals appeared Arctic Ocean arrived assignat banks bear began Berezovians birds black fox boat brought Brun called ceremony church cold colours CONNAUGHT RANGERS Cossack costume Count Tolstoy covered custom dance distance doors dress ducks elder brother eyes felt fish forest friends frost frozen functionary garment hair hand happened head herds hunter inhabitants Irbit fair Josephine journey lady larch light look Lysa Gora Madame Madame X manner masks means ment mirror narta natives never night Obdorsk obliged observed occasion Ostiaks party person police possessed post 8vo present Prince reindeer skin river round rubles Russian Samoied scarcely season seen Shaitan Shaman Siberia sledges snow solemn soon Soswa spirits spot spring Surgut tchoum tion Tobolsk took town tribes Wakulinski wataka Waul white reindeer whole wife winter young yourta
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Стр. 281 - ... these northern latitudes, or the sun, notwithstanding its obliquity, acts more powerfully upon it than near the equator ; for I have never felt its direct rays so oppressive within the tropics as I have experienced them to be on some occasions in the high latitudes. The luxury of bathing at such times is not without alloy ; for, if you choose the mid-day, you are assailed in the water by the Tabani, who draw blood in an instant with their formidable lancets ; and if you select the morning or...
Стр. 280 - The power of the sun, this day, in a cloudless sky, was so great, that Mr. Rae and I were glad to take shelter in the water while the crews were engaged on the portages. The irritability of the human frame is either greater in these northern latitudes, or the sun, notwithstanding its obliquity, acts more powerfully upon it than near the equator ; for I have never felt its direct rays so oppressive within the tropics as I have experienced them to be on some occasions in the high latitudes.